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Can you explain why you think it’s an awful language? It definitely used to be lacking in features, but the improvements in the recent versions have been great
by smaps 3y ago
Can you explain why you think it’s an awful language? It definitely used to be lacking in features, but the improvements in the recent versions have been great.
- zyngaro 3y agoDeveloper experience is awful. Variable names starting with $, heavy object orientism that seems like an after thought, tooling ecosystem is subpar, standard library is a joke, etc It’s a pile of crap and that’s my opinion
- dagw 3y agoI agree that the language itself has many warts and the standard library is what it is, but I found the modern PHP developer experience and tooling is surprisingly good. At least when working within the Laravel ecosystem.
- WA 3y agoWhat’s wrong with the standard library? Seems pretty extensive. Supports all kinds of DB drivers out of the box, JSON, XML, drawing tools…